One Skein Shawl Knitting Pattern - Easy Street Shawl

'Choose your Yarn' kits are available for the Easy Street shawl.

This pattern is also available to purchase on Ravelry

It’s always nice to kick back and forget about the stresses of modern-day life once in a while. And what better way to relax then with a nice, simple knitting pattern. The Easy Street asymmetrical shawl is a fun-to-work one skein shawl pattern that uses just knit stitches (it’s true!) and will make the most of a skein of 4 ply yarn, you just keep going until you run out.

There are instructions for 2 different versions of the shawl: You can wither work it as a 4 row repeat pattern, or an 8 row repeat pattern (as shown in the photo above)

Either way the resulting shawl is reversible, light and lacy, and the magic lies in the fact that there are no complicated lace stitches to learn, just a simple wrapped stitch otherwise known as long garter stitch! It works beautifully with variegated, colourful sock weight yarn and the pattern is easy to remember making it perfect for TV or travel knitting.

A tutorial on how to work the long garter stitch can be found by visiting https://www.undertheolivetreeknits.com/stitch-tutorials.html

Skills / Techniques Used – Wrapped stitches

Sizes: One size fits all

Measurements

The finished blocked items will vary depending on which version you make:

Version 1 (4 row repeat) – 88” (225cm) wingspan and 29” (74cm) depth at the longest part

Version 2 (8 row repeat) – 80” (205cm) wingspan and 23” (58cm) depth at the longest part

Version 1 produces a bigger shawl due to the extra rows of dropped sts.

Materials

• 1 x 3.5oz / 100g, 440 yd / 400-425m skein of sockweight or 4 ply yarn. The yarn used in the pattern photo is Under the Olive Tree Knits Chora sock yarn, 75% merino / 25% nylon in the Enchanted colourway
• 1 x 3.75mm - 80cm circular needle
• 1 removable stitch marker

Gauge

Gauge is not vital to this project but as a guideline your yarn should knit to around 22 stitches and 30 rows to 4 inches / 10cm in stockinette stitch after blocking.

You can view other examples of this pattern over on Ravelry. Click >>here<< to see pictures from other knitters who have made this shawl.